The Eminence in Shadow RPG 12+

Fix the starting screen and the gacha system

When tapping start, theres a bug where if you do not have app purchases available there will be a pop out saying, “Purchase, In app purchases are not allowed.” It makes it more annoying to have to click OK to proceeded onwards. My concern is to why the pop up appears and why there is a purchase when clicking the start on the starting screen. Also, the loading screen then goes black for a good 15 seconds after clicking start, which the loading screen should not take that long because I have a lot of storage and an Iphone 14. The game concept is overall great but fix the loading screen.

The gacha system is really bad. There is a humongous difference between the f2p players and spenders are too large, which makes the game too imbalanced. There should not be a paid banner and regular banner. Instead there should just be one banner for the players in which using the “payed” gems just increases the chances of getting the SAME character on the banner so that there would not be any characters that are almost “unobtainable” if you do not pay for. The value of both the payed gems and earned gems are just too big, which later on will make the f2p players quit because its to unfair and the spenders to quit later on after acquiring everything. Make the gacha system with the paid and earned gems more balanced because this will make me quit the game and a lot of others because of the unfairness.

Addicting and fun but severe greediness and bad pacing.

I have a lot of fun collecting the characters, interacting with them, and seeing all the cool abilities. It’s clear the game had a lot invested in it. That being said this is the most pay to win F2P I ever saw. The game hands out laughable rewards for clearing milestones, 10 gems, that’s the reward you get for pretty much all the milestones. You need 2,800 for a ten pull on gacha. Despite events and everything else that gives you more you’re likely to run out constantly for characters you want. You have to pay to really get what you want and sometimes you won’t even get the characters unless you spend hundred of dollars on just a single banner unless you want to grind 6 months to a year to get a guaranteed. To top it off the game has terrible pacing. About once a month there’s a level cap increase and new missions which means new gear. It doesn’t leave you time to upgrade your current characters effectively so you’re more likely to have more than a few characters lag behind to upgrading. Despite my review I do love this game but there needs to be serious overhauls on gem rates, gacha, and pacing.

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I really like the game but loosen up some

I really like the game but loosen up some. Some of the fights are really fun and every other week there’s some new kind of campaign. The graphics & CGI scenes are cool too. I want to give her 3.5 stars, but I couldn’t so I had to leave at 3. I have a few legit callouts that’ll be beneficial. The biggest issue with the game will be the Simmons. I did about five summons on different occasions on different banners and not only not receive a banner summon…I did not receive an SSR at all that’s crazy. You all should really fix that, like every other should get me at least one SSR if not the banner character plus an additional. I’ve seen major companies fall into legal trouble because of stuff like this. Look at Dragonball Z Dokkan Battle, they fell into legal trouble also because of this and now every summon we get an SSR character. & please lower the gem fees some, I have to buy basically package twice just to get a guarantee summon. And lastly, some kind of timer on the main screen for whatever program(s) that are active so will be reminded of when that campaign ends or the last day to use the “campaign coins” at there perspective stores. Thank you😬

P.S. - maybe in the future, add a house function were you interact with the ladies or characters you have altogether where you can have fun with them and also maybe them getting jealous or throwing shade at each other wanting Shadow’s attention like on the anime.